A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final film role was this slow-burn spy thriller from author John le Carré. Hoffman plays Günther Bachmann, the Hamburg station chief of the Border Protection Group. He has been on the money trail of a group of terrorists who infiltrated his network in Beirut and killed several of his agents.

Holidays The most successful adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel about a mother raising four daughters alone during the Civil War is peerless family entertainment. The superb cast includes Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett.

Silent Tuesdays Chimmie Fadden Out West, was Cecil B. DeMille’s follow up to his very successful film version of Chimmie Fadden (1915). Both films starred Victor Moore—probably best known to modern audiences as the destitute father from Make Way for Tomorrow—as the loveable Bowery hooligan, Chimmie Fadden.

Holidays Charles Dickens’s beloved classic goes “Gonzo” with this charming adaptation from Brian Henson, Jim Henson’s son. Gonzo plays the author and narrator of the tale, with Michael Caine perfectly cast as everyone’s favorite miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman It’s 1959, and author and socialite Truman Capote travels to Kansas to research a book on the murder of a family and the story of the murderer’s capture. It isn’t long, however, before Capote becomes close with one of the accused, Perry Smith.